A senior police officer whose son is on trial for causing the death by dangerous driving of Carol Boardman attempted to prevent officers from interviewing his daughter-in-law about the fatal crash, a court has been told.

Mrs Boardman, the mother of world and Olympic champion turned cycling campaigner Chris Boardman, died in July 2016 from injuries sustained when she was struck by a pick-up truck driven by Liam Rosney, 32, in Connah’s Quay, North Wales.

Besides the causing death by dangerous driving charge, which he denies, Rosney and his wife Victoria, also 32, have been charged with perverting the course of justice due to deleting records on their mobile phones.

On Monday, Mold Crown Court was told that the pair exchanged several phone calls in the run-up to the fatal crash, the last one terminated an estimated four seconds before the collision.

Giving evidence yesterday, Detective Sergeant Laura Griffiths of North Wales Police said that on 22 November 2017 she went and two fellow officers went to the Rosneys’ home with the intention of taking Mrs Rosney’s mobile phone, the Liverpool Echo reports.

No-one was in, so DS Griffiths phoned Mrs Rosney who told her she was at work and would need to ask permission to return home.

Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.